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The Museum as a Cinematic Space
The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions
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Book Presentation:
Takes an intermedial approach to examine how film has influenced exhibition designKey features
• Uses an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework to enrich our understanding of the display of films and audio-visuals in museums
• Provides in-depth analysis of the contemporary landscape, highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practices
• Features case studies to enhance our knowledge of contemporary museum practice
Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, with screens and audio-visual projections frequently encountered by museum visitors. But when did films start to be displayed in museum galleries? And what are the issues at stake when showing moving images in exhibition spaces?
With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design. Highlighting the continuities and fractures between different periods, contexts and practices, Elisa Mandelli shows the deep influence of audio-visuals on the configuration of the exhibition space, as well as on the relationship between museums and their visitors.
Case studies
• Imperial War Museum (London, UK)
• New York Museum of Science and Industry (New York, US)
• Widespread Museum of Resistance (Turin, Italy)
• In Flanders Fields Museum (Ypres, Belgium)
• Trento Tunnels (Trento, Italy)
• Installation Peopling the Palace (Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy)
• The Big Picture Show at the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester, UK)
• Historial Charles de Gaulle (Paris, France)
• Museum Laboratory of the Mind (Rome, Italy)
About the Author:
'Elisa Mandelli is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Link Campus University (Rome). Her primary research interests include cinema and visual arts, moving images in museums, film installations. Her writings have appeared in various edited collections and national and international journals.
Press Reviews:
In her innovative work, Elisa Mandelli traces the fascinating history of films and moving images in exhibition design. Combining careful archival research with sharp analyses of contemporary museums, The Museum as a Cinematic Space offers an invaluable addition to our understanding of the theories and practices of audio-visual media displays in exhibitions.– Leonardo Quaresima, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Udine
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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